Watertown gallery Storefront Art Projects will host Family, Creativity, Continuity, and Art | Interrupted from Dec. 7 to 28, featuring the art of Lisa Olson and Mary Beth Muscara. A Reception will be held Saturday, Dec. 7, from 1-4 p.m. Gallery Hours: Thursdays and Saturdays 1-4

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Lisa Olson and Mary Beth Muscara share two grandchildren, but their lives and art practices are as far apart as their studios in Lexington, MA and Baltimore, MD. They both explore the fragility and danger of life and the relentlessness of time with collaged, painted, sculpted, corporeal, and somatic interruptions. 

Lisa is living with Parkinson’s disease which has robbed her of her manual dexterity and strength but her art is still flowing. She is making-do with a shaped metal punch, glue, and a 30 year archive of her prints, drawings and photographs to create an on-going body of collage work and mail-art. She thinks of this as a last dance and she hopes it will take her years to complete.

She received an MFA in Mixed Media and a BS in Microbiology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her work is in many public and private collections including Brown University; the Universities of California, Los Angeles and San Diego; the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Boston Public Library. She lives in Lexington, MA and is a past member of Bromfield Gallery.

Mary Beth Muscara from Baltimore has had residencies at Yaddo, Hambidge Center for the Arts in GA, and Vermont Studio Center. She has received grants from the Maryland State Arts Council and she was nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and non-profit spaces throughout the Baltimore-Washington and mid-Atlantic region including Maryland Art Place, Easton Academy of the Arts, the Anton Gallery, the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, and the Gwinnett Fine Arts Center in Duluth, Georgia. Her mixed-media paintings and sculpture engage with the nature of reality. 

Mary Beth says, “Habitual tendencies lead us to view our lives through narrow filters.” Her goal is to break through those filters “and see what is simply there to reveal the transitory nature of everything” including herself.

Storefront Art Projects is located at 83 Spring St. Watertown, MA. See more at www.storefrontartprojects.com